Two faculty members from The Ohio State University have been selected as recipients of prestigious Fulbright Scholar Fellowships. Maria Myroslava Mudrak from the department of history and art, and Joseph S. Verducci from the department of statistics were selected by the Council for International Exchange of Scholars, which administers the program for the U.S. Department of State. Fellows will conduct research abroad, consult with international colleagues, and lecture to promote general global welfare.

Fulbright fellowships are awarded to approximately 800 scholars each year. Recipients are chosen based on professional accomplishments and demonstrated leadership in their chosen fields. Since its inception in 1946, nearly 300,000 people have participated in the Fulbright exchange program, which is widely heralded as the nation's flagship educational exchange program.

Ohio State’s 2008-2009 Fulbright Scholar Fellowship recipients are:

Maria Myroslava Mudrak (Department of History and Art), Kharkiv Museum of Literature, Kharkiv, Ukraine. Mudrak’s research centers on "Redressing Mythologies: A Scholarly Look at Constructivism and a Revised Study of Ukrainian Artistic Modernism.

Joseph S. Verducci (Department of Statistics), Limerick College of Arts, Commerce, and Technology, Limerick, Ireland. Verducci’s lecturing and research centers on "Statistical Methods for Biological Modeling and Informatics."

In addition, Ohio State will host nine foreign scholars who have received Fulbright grants to teach and conduct research in the U.S. under the Visiting Scholar Program.

Ohio State’s visiting scholars include:

• Seddik Boutiouta, Department of Radio Communication, Institute of Telecommunications, Oran, Algeria. He is visiting the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Geodetic Science and Professor Dorota Grejner-Brzezinska.
• Sheherazad Youssef Ezzeldeen Ahmed, Department of Basic Engineering Sciences, Menoufia University, Shibin El-Kom, Egypt. She is visiting the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and Professor Hendrik Verweij.
• Suzanna Kamilova, Kyiv Department of Marketing and International Trade, Kyiv National University of Trade and Economics, Kyiv, Ukraine. She is visiting the Department of Agricultural, Environmental and Development Economics, and Professor Alan Randall.
• Uelo Mander, Department of Geography, Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Tartu, Estonia. He is visiting the School of Environmental and Natural Resources, and Professor William J. Mitsch.
• Mbugua Mungai, Department of Literature, Kenyatta University, Nairobi, Kenya. He is visiting The Center for Folklore Studies, and Associate Professor Dorothy Noyes.
• Zlatko Pejkovski, Department of Animal Sciences, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University, Skopje, Macedonia. He is visiting the Department of Animal Science and Professor Herbert Ockerrman.
• Temenuzhka Minkova Seizova-Nankova, Department of English Philology, Konstantin Preslavski University of Shoumen, Bulgaria. She is visiting the Department of Slavic and East European Languages, and Professor Brian D. Joseph.
• Leonid Zotov, Laboratory of Gravimetry, Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia He is visiting the Department of Earth Science, and Professor C.K. Shum.
• Margaret Draganova Dimitrova, Sofia University St. Kilment Ohridski. She is visiting the Resource Center for Slavic Studies, and Professor Predrag Matejic.